Or you could start a year early and be among the youngest. Then run a 4:07 mile your freshman year of college and be anonymous.
Fall birthdays are the most prevalent among the US population. The more you know.
Or you could start a year early and be among the youngest. Then run a 4:07 mile your freshman year of college and be anonymous.
Fall birthdays are the most prevalent among the US population. The more you know.
From a UK perspective, which is primarily how the AW editor views things, this seems a pointless article in that it's been rehashed countless times since I was an adolescent some decades ago. The latest article's 'insight' adds nothing that wasn't already widely discussed decades ago. In England, school years are based with only rare exceptions around 1 September as birthday cut off, and the obvious trend follows. To then point out some amazing runners who were born MONTHS after September - well that's what happens in TRENDS.
i don't buy it on the elite level. i would say that statistically speaking, people born in the fall are better than those who aren't when it comes to the grade school level. with that said, we see many juniors who are just as good as seniors in state meets as well as a few sophomores and occasionally a freshman. some kid with a lot of potential isn't likely to give up when they're losing while they're also consistently improving.
Utter rubbish!
I feel like women are born in the summer and in the early early spring.
Ummmm ... Kipchoge (11/5) ... Kenya is on the equator, so it isn't exactly fall in the same sense as northern countries.
The comments in this article are backed up by extensive studies on very large sample (e.g. every Olympic gold medalist in every sport). They all show a disproportionately large (e.g 85% +) number of medalists have birthdays in the earlier part of the academic year in the Northern hemisphere (i.e. autumn birthday).
Why? There are numerous reasons which explain this affect but if you want a proper analysis, you’ll have to pay me!
Evidence - there are tons of papers e.g.
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
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